Packard Bell, which is now owned by Acer, has showcased a new netbook which can convert into a tablet PC within seconds and carries the name of Easynote Butterfly Touch edition. It is based around Intel's CULV platfom running a...

Mobile phone operator Orange expects a significant increase in the number of people sending picture messages and plain texts SMS this Christmas. More than 100 million texts were sent last year on that day and this number is set...

The Essex County council has announced that it will be outsourcing a huge chunk of its services to IT solutions giant IBM in a £5.4 billion deal.  The company was named as the preferred bidder for the multi-billion...

Project Canvas is possibly one of the most ambitious projects kickstarted by the BBC over the past decade, on par with Freeview which was launched back in 2002, and even more important to the corporation's future than its popular...

It is a little known fact that Intel is by far the manufacturer with the biggest installed base of graphics chips (not video cards) with more than half of the market and due mainly to the fact that it ships hundreds of millions...

One of Britain’s most prominent internet service providers, BT has announced that its customer base has reached the five million mark, becoming the first in its market to do so. Elizabeth Patterson of East Kilbride located...

Firefox, whose latest version was recently named the world’s most used web browser, is all set to roll out its mobile phone version, said Mozilla, the organisation behind the popular web browser.  The browser, which is...

This Christmas, search engine behemoth Google will donate $20 million to several charities as a holiday gift for everyone instead of giving out holiday gifts to customers of its Adsense or Adwords advertising services. Every year...

Google Inc is all set to acquire DocVerse, a developer of real-time Microsoft Office collaboration software, in a $25 million deal according to a report carried by TechCrunch. The company, DocVerse, which was founded in 2007,...

Leading financial news magazine, Business Week, has reported that micro blogging giant Twitter will have a profitable year after the company signed two separate deals with Google Inc and Microsoft Corp which will allow Twitter...

Microsoft Corp. has announced that the release candidate for its much-awaited Visual Studio 2010 as well as .Net Framework 4 software suites will be issued in early 2010, thereby holding up the official release of the software by...

It seems that HP has to improve its facial recognition technology, as a video of a black man and a white woman posted on YouTube has sparked controversy about the supposedly "racist" nature of the webcams fitted with its newest...

Google has changed its search engine and Google News services to help newspaper publishers more closely control access to articles that require a subscription. It is now possible for newspapers to limit one person to reading five...

Apple has issued a latest graphics firmware update to its 27-inch iMacs, addressing video-flickering as well as some image correction issues. The firmware update, codenamed as “27-inch iMac Graphics Firmware Update...

Ford has rolled out a new cutting-edge SYNC in-car information and entertainment system in its selected range of latest models that will turn the vehicle into moving Wi-Fi hotspots. The system will deliver a slew of advanced...

Google Inc has come under fire from a Paris court as it ruled against the search engine giant in a case of copyright infringement slapped on the company by French publisher La Martiniere, which fought the case on behalf of...

According to a TechCrunch report published last week, search engine giant Google was 80 per cent likely to buy out Yelp, a popular business review site located in the US for at least $550 million.  However, new reports...

Extending your IT resource into the cloud has become a lot more secure, as Steve Gold explains how businesses of all sizes can create a secure VPN between their physical IT storage and the cloud, allowing them access to...

Windows 7 has been devised to run on low powered computers like netbooks. Unlike its immediate predecessor, Vista, Windows 7 has been successfully running on machines that have the same computing power as 10-year old...